Filthy Armenian Adventures
FILTHY ARMENIAN ADVENTURES is a travel agency for the soul that takes you all over the map of our cultural apocalypse and deep into its most forbidden and forgotten territories, where the Santa Ana Winds are always blowing and all guests are dared to abandon their masks... Subscribe to the show on Patreon get 2x the adventures, including the most intimate and scandalous ones, plus 10+ monthly Smoke Break mini-eps on topics of the day, and priority to live events. Created and hosted by Alec Mouhibian. Society & Culture arrow_drop_down Add optional categories Note: Apple Podcasts only recognizes the first category and subcategory. Podcast logo * (jpg or png) newimage.jpg arrow_drop_down Select image Apple Podcasts Requirement: Artwork must be a minimum size of 1400 x 1400 pixels and a maximum size of 3000 x 3000 pixels, in JPEG or PNG format. Highly recommended: Include a show title, brand, or source name as part of your podcast artwork. More Options keyboard_arrow_down Update Options Podbean.com Copyright © Podbean.com 2024. All Rights Reserved.
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Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
A "lived experience" review of Andrew Dominik's Blonde, fresh out of the Laemmle Noho theater, following a reading of Ayn Rand's righteous celebration of Marilyn Monroe published two weeks after her death. For the full (1:45) episode, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Location: North Hollywood, California
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Friday Sep 16, 2022
Friday Sep 16, 2022
With Armenia under attack, I embark on a solo tour of its haunted joyous capital city of Yerevan, taking measure of my people, their shadows, and the competing illusions this city is known to spawn.
To follow the full twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for "Disillusioned With Democracy," the secret chapter from this episode, plus over 20 other patron-only episodes. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/filthyarmenian. Instagram @filthyarmenian.
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Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
A manic Vegas tango through libertarian lore and gore with longtime Reason Magazine editor Nick Gillespie, following a circle dance with controversial pornographer John "Buttman" Stagliano, the last man to be indicted on obscenity charges in the United States. Would he cast AOC?
To follow the complete twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for access to over 20 secret chapter episodes including "Anarchy at Freedomfest," where I talk to the FreedomFest co-founder JoAnne Skousen and other characters from the largest libertarian festival in the world 18 years after I last attended.
Location: The Mirage Hotel and Casino
Nick Gillespie is currently the host of The Reason Interview podcast. Follow him online @nickgillespie and follow us @filthyarmenian
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Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
I hit the Vegas tables with Glenn Greenwald to make some bets, spot cheaters, lay it on the line and try to decipher his highly successful system for beating the House. For the full episode and other secret chapters from the twisted adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Location: The Mirage Resort & Casino - Las Vegas, Nevada
Glenn Greenwald is the author most recently of Securing Democracy and No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. Follow him on Twitter @ggreenwald and subscribe to his substack at greenwald.substack.com
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Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Son of the Old Left, father of the New Left, sworn enemy of the whole left -- "a century from now," in the words of Camille Paglia, "cultural historians will find David Horowitz's political and spiritual odyssey paradigmatic for our time." We gallop to the Rockies to catch up with the historic writer-warrior as he confronts his most powerful enemy yet...
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Recommended reading: Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey and Mortality & Faith: Reflections on a Journey Through Time by David Horowitz
Sights:
Shakespeare, Peter Collier, Ron Radosh, Raiders, Roger Goodell, Donald Trump, Ed Snyder, Mark Davis, Sontag, Rosenberg execution, Ramparts, Black Panthers, Robert Sheer, Isaiah Berlin, Erich Fromm, Tom Hayden, Huey Newton, Reason Magazine, Bill Kristol, Martin Luther, Pope Francis, Erdogan, Mel Gibson, Jesus, Protestants, Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitbart, Joan Didion, Ben Stein, 1939, supernatural diner experience, Bernie Sanders, Christopher Hitchens, Todd Gitlin, Mollie Hemingway, Henry Louis Gates, capitalism and rap, Twin Peaks, Mario Savio, Pascal, Paul Robeson, Charlie Chaplin’s moonwalk, Morgan, Winter’s Tale, AIDS, Larry Littlejohn, Van Morrison, Cocaine
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Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Summoning H.L. Mencken to diagnose and exorcise the latest national bout of puritan brain fog so we can all have a free and idiotic summer. With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Barrett Avner of Contain. This is the free first hour, for the full 2.5 (and many other intimate premium episodes) subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Recommended reading: "Puritanism as a Literary Force" essay by H.L. Mencken
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Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Local bard Berto (Ghost Jail), justice of the peace Illych (Chicago Transplant Authority), and Texas noseman Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist) drink every drop of sex, politics, and religion in that deep Chicago night in search of a cure. This is Part 1: "I Wish My Mom Was Michael Jackson." For the full 3.5 hour nocturnal extravaganza, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian
Location: Cheesie's, Wang's, Sidetrack, The Closet, and other unidentified corners of Boystown in Chicago, Illinois.
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Friday Jun 24, 2022
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Enter the dark room, but go with a friend...The long-hidden FAA pilot.
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Locations: KAISERBRÜNDL Herrensauna Vienna, Austria and a bar in Sarajevo, Bosnia
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Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Four visits with America's most famous rabbi and "one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world" to see what’s up, ask what’s it like, and examine the facts of The Case. David Wolpe is the author of Why Faith Matters, Making Loss Matter, and most recently, David: The Divided Heart.
Location: Sinai Temple, Wilshire Boulevard.
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Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
Jack returns from The Perfume Nationalist to ponder what is wrong with Joan Didion, what is depressing beyond belief about that Netflix documentary that memed her, and what rings true and timeless and based and redpilled about her classic book Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), written when she was a Goldwater girl with a little secret.
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